Perspectives Turkey 9: Turkey's Democracy between two Elections

This issue features two special dossiers: the democracy dossier analyzes the current situation and strategies of significant political actors towards the Presidential elections. The second one is a gender and macroeconomy dossier, which hopefully would provide an introduction to a gendered reading of macroeconomic issues in Turkey, who will be hosting the G20 summit in 2015. As usual the issue covers foreign policy, ecology and culture topics with very interesting articles.

Feature Articles: Gender and Macroeconomy23 Purple economy: A future vision of a new economic order beyond the green, İpek İlkkaracan28 Global financial crisis did not leave the labor market untouched, Özge İzdeş32 Measuring poverty: An old issue, a new approach and some conclusions,Thomas Masterson, Emel Memiş, Ajit Zacharias

Ecology36 Season final in Turkey’s “gold rush”, Arif Ali Cangı40 The Ukraine - Russia crisis and Turkey: Foreign dependence on energy is not destiny,Necdet Pamir